Since we can't serve you dinner, this fall's Dinners With Interesting People (DWIP) will be re-named "Conversations With Interesting People" (CWIP), and will take place on Zoom. One advantage of this mode is that we'll be able to invite Interesting People from all over the world. 

This week, Ware's Conversations With Interesting People (CWIC) will take place on Friday 9/18 at 8:00pm EDT, and will feature Liang Huang, 

Liang's recent work includes important contributions to Machine Translation -- but what he'll be discussing with us is his work on efficient algorithms for predicting macromolecule folding structures, which has been used in COVID-19 vaccine design.

This work starts from research done at Penn in the 1980s and 1990s, by David Searls and Aravind Joshi (who was Liang's thesis advisor). And one of the things that you'll learn from Liang is why macromolecule folding and linguistic parsing are mathematically equivalent, and why his work on efficient parsing has led to major improvements in analysing or designing RNA sequences.

  See you there then!

   Mark Liberman

   https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~myll

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